Kerman mayor declares win in Fresno County D1 race. ‘Outspent' but not ‘outworked'
Kerman Mayor Maria Pacheco declared victory in the race to fill the Fresno County District 1 supervisor seat on Tuesday after the latest update to polling numbers. Pacheco, 47, will be the first Latina to hold a Fresno County Board of Supervisors seat when she takes the oath of office in January. She noted “we made history” in a message posted on Instagram , celebrating the win and thanking her supporters. “This win belongs to people who believed that something different was possible,” the post said. “We were outspent, but we were NEVER outworked!” Pacheco was not immediately available for comment for The Fresno Bee on Wednesday. She jumped out to a lead on Election Day as the first numbers rolled in, and her lead held through multiple updates. The latest numbers showed she had 58.5% of the vote, topping her opponent and Fresno City Councilmember Mike Karbassi, who had 41.5% of the vote in the update on Tuesday, according to the Fresno County Elections Department. She was more than 5,700 votes ahead of Karbassi in the latest count. Both were newcomers to the county race. The District 1 seat is held by Supervisor Brian Pacheco, who said he did
